Re: Airline inspections

[al <nissar@xxxxxxx>]

Your film would have set of the metal detector as if you were driving a
M1A1 tank through it. The detector must have been defective, there is
enough silver in that film to start your own jewelry store (regarding the
sensitivity of metal detectors). 


At 10:59 AM 8/31/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/31/98 8:42:51 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
>hermann.klecker@xxxxxxx writes:
>
><< My suggestion to aviod the stupid ariline inspection:
> 
> Simply carry your HIE container close to your body - e.g. in your yacket
> pockets. 
>  >>
>3 years ago while travellilng in France, I caught a flight from Nice to
>London.  I had taken numerous exposures on both 120 and 4x5 film which I did
>not want to pass through the inspection x-ray machines at the airport.  So, I
>wore a pair of pants that had several pockets as well as a photographers
>jacket which also had several pockets, and loaded all my 4x5 boxes and 120
>rolls of film into these pockets.  I removed all metal objects from my
person,
>including my belt.  I had no problem going through the metal detector, but
had
>to hold up my pants.  No one bothered to stop me even though a close visual
>inspection would have disclosed I was carrying a lot of something.
>GSD
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